Alone Together // Pete Wentz

Dance Dance

~Anna's POV~

I had just gotten home from school on Wednseday. It was a pretty rough day, because Pete wasn't there. He had gotten sick on the 3rd day of school. I was surprised how I possibly made it through the day without him. He texted me at lunch when he knew I could go on my phone without being caught. But that was the only communication we shared. I needed to see him. It was like an addiction. I was laying on my bed, about to text him when my mom came in.

"Anna is your homework finished?" She asked.

"No, mom." I replied sighing.

"Well! What are you waiting for! You know the rules! No phone until you're done with school work and chores." She lectured me, loudly. She grabbed me phone and stormed out of the room. My mom was like that- one minute friendly as can be, the next yelling about random things. I sighed, and tried to focus on Math. But I didnt understand it at all. Math was always my weakest subject, I barely got As each report card. And of course that was never good enough for my parents. I had never once gotten a B, but they didn't care about that. Once, I had gotten lectured about not getting a 100! It was ridiculous. And of course that just added a million times more stress on me. But that was over now. I had a new school, and a new life. I lied to myself. In reality I knew I would have to be taking even more anxiety medication than usual. I tried again to focus on the math problems, but the numbers gave me a headache. I wanted to text Julia and ask her, because I knew she could help me. Too bad I didn't have my phone. Eventually I finished my work and went downstairs to get it.

~Pete's POV~

This was the worst day I had in awhile. I haven't seen her at all today. I was in my bed, under a blanket but still freezing cold. I was shaking, and barely managing to eat my soup. I decided to try and sleep, to make everything go away.

When I opened my eyes, it was getting close to 10 pm. I was feeling a ton better, which was great because that meant I could go to school tomorrow. Wait, what?! Was I seriously just glad I could go back to school? I guess that was just the affect Anna had on people. She brought out the good in me. I laughed, remembering how she had wanted to sit in the front of the class. I missed her, and needed to see her. I picked up my phone..

To Anna:

Heyyyy

I sent it. It said "read" almost instantly.

From Anna:

Heyyy Pete, I missed you today!

I felt myself blush.

To Anna:

I missed you more.

From Anna:

I doubt that. This is crazy, but do you want to meet up?

To Anna:

I was hoping you'd ask. Meet @ tree in 20 min

From Anna:

Kk

I threw on some jeans and a shirt and snuck downstairs. My parents were pretty light sleepers, so I had to be extra careful. Somehow I managed to make it out the door without waking anyone. I walked along the sidewalk to the park. It was faintly drizzling. I looked into the sky. It was pitch black. Well duh, it was getting really late. I arrived at the tree, and climbed up to the top. I sat, waiting for her to come. A couple minutes later, I heard the rustling of leaves and I saw a figure climbing up towards me.

"Heyy" I called to her.

"Hiiii!" She said, sitting opposite to me on a branch that was just a little bit higher than mine. I gazed into her eyes. We started talking about a bunch of things, mostly music and stuff we had done. Then we got into the topic of when we had first met.